Ukraine’s biggest thermal power plant hit by shelling
Ukraine’s biggest Vuhlehirsk thermal power plant in the
Donetsk region got under shelling and had to stop operations, press service of
the managing company CenterEnergo said on Monday.
"At night on July 27, the energy blocks 1,3 and 4 were
stopped in emergency," the press service said. "The shell damaged the
electric parts of energy blocks 1, 2 and 3. Open distributing equipment has
been damaged greatly. The staff is safe," reports Tass.
The managing company says the Vuhlehirsk plant is the
biggest power plant in Ukraine and the biggest facility in the Donetsk region.
However, the financial situation is "complicated" there — the
management is looking for investors to re-equip the plant and to "extend
the current equipment’s term by another 15-20 years."
Regular talks of the participants in the Trilateral Contact
Group on the east Ukrainian settlement comprising representatives of Russia,
Ukraine and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were
held in the Belarusian capital city of Minsk on February 10-12. Talks of the
Normandy Four (Russia, Germany, France, and Ukraine) leaders on the Ukrainian
issue also ended February 12 in Minsk.
A 13-point Package of Measures on implementation of the
September 2014 Minsk agreements was adopted at the February talks.
The package in particular included an agreement on cessation
of fire from February 15, withdrawal of heavy armaments, as well as measures on
long-term political settlement of the situation in Ukraine, including
enforcement of a special self-rule status for certain districts of the Donetsk
and Luhansk regions. The ceasefire has been repeatedly violated since.
On Saturday, July 18, the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s
Republics (DPR and LPR) announced withdrawing from the line of engagement of
tanks and armoured vehicles equipped with guns of under 100mm calibre to the
distance of at least 3 kilometers. Within July 19, DPR withdrew 41 tanks and 84
infantry fighting vehicles. LPR as of 08:00 p.m. on July 19 finalized
withdrawal of all the weapons of under 100mm calibre from the line of
engagement with the exception for the area near the settlement of Schastye.
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